“Just Breathe” Sermon Series Intro
Posted by Travis on May 3, 2008Well, it has been a while since a worthwhile post came to these parts. I decided I am going to try to get back on the blog-bandwagon along with a couple of other potential web activities that you shall hear about soon enough.
I am posting a video that we will be using in church for the next few weeks as the sermon intro, between worship and the message. The series is “Just Breathe” and it is a 4 week study on the Holy Spirit.
I don’t know if it is good or bad to say that this video is the result of the better part of two days work, spread over a week. The graphic appearing at the end was designed by Chris for the series. I worked backwards from it to animate it and add motion along with all the text. Chris did the initial design in Photoshop I did all the animation in After Effects and created the “flourishes” that grow in the video in Illustrator. The text may change week to week, I am not sure yet.
The music behind it is “The Adventure” by Angels & Airwaves. (I tried posting on YouTube first but couldn’t get audio in there for some reason, so it’s hosted on my site and may take a bit longer to play.)
Enjoy
-Travis
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Pretty freakin sweet AE master
Ah yes Evolution and trendy polar coordinates… should’ve known. And of course Angels and Airwaves? I see you in all your glorious design nakedness.
Nicely composed. Personally, would have added a slight rotation to the background, along with some swoosh sfx.
P.S. I added your blog to my RSS feed. Can’t wait for a regular dose of the ultimate Travisty.
Mikey… Evolution and polar coordinates? I dunno what you mean by evolution. And I didn’t use any polar coordinates. I used a camera and moved it around the text objects. And good idea on the rotating background, I started to use that but I felt it was too much movement and distracted from the text that was changing pretty quickly. I wanted to make sure people were reading.
Mikey I need to see some of your stuff, I hear good things.
One of my main goals this summer is my demo reel. Got enough stuff to piece something together. I will probably keep Moncus involved as he has creative vision, and in effect I’m sure I will have you offer advice.
But the Evolution thing… the vector floral things you used remind me of an animated stock art set from VideoCopilot.net - popular After Effects tutorial / product site. Very useful stuff I might add. Your style dictates you might glean a lot off of his free tutorials, if you haven’t already checked them out. Did you (or Moncus) make those vector shapes? Impressive if you did.
Ah the floral things. I have always referred to them as “flourishes,” I never knew what to search for when I was trying to figure out how to first do them. I haven’t hit up that site but I will. Pretty much the only AE tutorials I have used were on CreativeCow.com.
The two different flourishes in the video were cut from images we had. The “corners” were ones that Chris had in a PS file and I cut it up in PS and brought in the layers. The flourishes that are more 3D in the video were ones I tweaked from a file I had in AI but not from scratch. I cut it up into layers in AI and brought it in.
I have made some of those in the past but was under time constraints with this one. All that are in the video aside from the end corners I did at the end of day when I had to have it done. I had “finished” and had about two hours left and was just trying to make the video a little less boring.
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Awesome video travis!!
Saw it for the first time today. Had Fam Jam last week. Very impressive!! You have done an amazing job as your role of tech director.
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